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After several long months of inactivity, I've restarted
work on the luxdvd
project (LuxSonor LS200 DVD family decoder chipset kernel
driver for Linux). As can be seen from the following log
output, the board appears to be initialized and the
microcode appears to be loaded:

Now, IOCTLS have to be implemented. Will probably do
sound first since that should be much easier than video.
Still need to gather more info on the three sound formats
(PCM, AC3, MPEG) to do this properly. Probably will tackle
PCM first if I can find a DVD with that format, or perhaps
find suitable reference samples. Still kinda stumbling in
the dark when it comes to these.

Yesterday I spent a couple hours backing up all important
files (or at least, all the important ones I remembered.
Oops.) and re-installed and configured GNU/Linux. Need to
upgrade the Kernel to a 2.4-pre version for the new PCI
services as the current LuxSonor code expects that. Then,
its on to writing the hooks between user and kernel space.
Joy.

Tangent

At a recent job fair, Compaq gave out "Linux" license
plates. A friend-of-a-friend was lucky enough to get one
which he
put on the front of his car. A couple weeks later, he
got this
(~500k).